Information Communications Technology Ministers, senior government officials, regulatory agency heads, and international ICT experts, who spoke at the 8th annual forum and the 50th council meeting of the Common Wealth Telecommunications Organization, (CTO) being held in Sri Lanka rose up from the saying that unless commonwealth nations take faster measures to ensure more rapid deployment of broadband and access to it by a larger percentage of their citizens, national development may be far fetched.

THE Burutu Youth Political Forum, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, to take immediate steps to remove the Delta State INEC Director of Operations, Mr. Chris Nwosu, for allegedly aiding and abetting the massive rigging of the 2007 elections in Burutu Local Government Area of the state.

The Rural Electrification Agency in Cross River State has commenced electrification projects in 77 sites in 102 communities in the state.

Samsung Electronics West Africa has reacted to the influx of refurbished phones that has invaded the nations major mobile phone markets in recent years.

For majority of ICT traders and food sellers in the computer village, the Nigerian silicon valley, it was not good business as usual during the just celebrated Ramadan festival for Moslems as business activities were at low ebb, according to CyberLIFE findings.

EFFORTS to keep local Internet traffic in the country received a boost at the weekend in Abuja when the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Dr. Eugene Juwah, declared that his administration will increase the support given by the Commission to the Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria, IXPN, to ensure its tangible success.

IT was celebration time at the Oko campus of the Federal Polytechnic in Anambra State recently when 51 students belonging to five notorious cult groups in the institution publicly destroyed their dangerous initiation instruments, forcing many students, lecturers and parents to shed tears of joy.

Last week on these pages we carried a report on an NIIT student Mr Adebola Aremu who alleged that his institution was cheating the Nigerian students by teaching them with outdated curriculum.

FOLLOWING its soon-to-be proclaimed amnesty for kidnappers and criminals who go by the name freedom fighters, Abia State government has embarked on the construction of 1,000- bed space, well equipped hostel at Asa High School, Ukwa West, to serve as transit camp for repentant kidnappers in the state.

The Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Communication Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) limited, Mr. Ahmed Rufai has said that having fully trained nearly 150 young engineers who are equipped to fit into any global engineering field, Nigeria was ready to take on the world in science and technological excellence.